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James Fisher
29,163 PointsFrom the transcript/video: If we're on a category page, then we wanna redirect them to a category page.
Can you explain the logic?
1 Answer
Jennifer Nordell
Treehouse TeacherHi, James Fisher! Yes, this sounds a little unclear. Why would we want to redirect them to the place we already are, right? 
Imagine this scenario: you have a page of books and a page of movies. Both "books" and "movies" are categories and each "page" of the pagination contains 5 titles. On the first "page" are the first 5 titles. But imagine you clicked the "2" link to take you to the next page of books and instead, it hopped over to show the matches 6-10 of of the movies category. That would be bizarre behavior. Or, even worse, it took you to the second page of all items.
The idea here is that in the case the category is set, we are redirecting back to the same category.
Hope this helps!
James Fisher
29,163 PointsJames Fisher
29,163 PointsThanks Jennifer, I appreciate you taking the time to clear that up! That seems perfectly logical - though sometimes it seems in this course the instructor doesn't always take the time to imprint the logic that needs to be driven into a new student's thought process when learning the "why" behind the code...